ALL WEBINARS

We invite you to participate in this “offline” Forum discussion with past ARF advisors Peter Davies of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, and Bart De Strooper at K.U. Leuven, Belgium. The goal of this discussion is to explore the ...

These are comfortable times for the amyloid hypothesis, it would seem. Every week brings more good news about some anti-amyloid intervention having “cured” mice from their “Alzheimer’s.” On the human front, we are eagerly awaiting such therapeutics to ...

We invite you to participate in this "offline" Forum discussion led by Vincent Marchesi of Yale University. Coming from a different research field, Marchesi has in recent years followed the AD literature as closely as have few other outside ...

On Monday, 27 October 2008, a live Webinar was held by Alzheimer’s research leaders on a national action plan to accelerate discoveries of treatments to prevent dementia. The plan will be presented to the 111th U.S. Congress in March 2009. Presentations ...

On 15 June 2009, we hosted a Webinar discussion with slide presentations by Ian McKeith at Newcastle University, UK, James Leverenz at University of Washington, Seattle, James Galvin, Washington University, St. Louis, Brit Mollenhauer of Paracelsus-Elena ...

We invite you to participate in this Forum Discussion with Yong Shen (Sun Health Research Institute). This discussion will not be hosted via our live discussion software. Instead, we will develop written exchanges between our participants and Yong Shen. ...

Alois Alzheimer made a major breakthrough when he discovered senile plaques in the brains of dementia patients, and his work ultimately led to the discovery of amyloid-β and to the amyloid cascade hypothesis. But that cascade is only part of a much bigger ...

Live discussion and panel of participants scheduled for 7 September 2001. Summary: "Ca2+ deficit" hypothesis Summary: "Natural origin" hypothesis for plaques and tangles The live chat and panel of participants scheduled for 7 ...

Malcolm Leissring and Wesley Farris led this live discussion on 12 September 2002. Readers are invited to submit additional comments by using our Comments form at the bottom of the page. Transcript: Live discussion held 12 September 2002 with Wesley ...

The pathologic similarities between prion diseases and other disorders involving protein aggregation have been apparent for decades, but it has been generally thought that only prion disease can be propagated by corruptive protein seeding. A spate of ...

Inez Vincent led this live discussion on 7 August 2002. Readers are invited to submit additional comments by using our Comments form at the bottom of the page. See diagram from Inez Vincent Transcript: Live discussion held 20 May 2002 at 12 noon. ...

Have you been waiting for a quick yet reliable test for early dementia? The AD8 might be your answer. The interview-based screening tool detects early cognitive impairment, has been validated against the clinical dementia rating scale and against ...

Peter Nelson, with Dennis Selkoe, John Hardy, and Alain Israel, led this live discussion on 5 May 1999. Readers are invited to submit additional comments by using our Comments form at the bottom of the page. Transcript: Live discussion with Dennis Selkoe, ...

George Perry and Mark A. Smith led this live discussion on 14 August 2001. Readers are invited to submit additional comments by using our Comments form at the bottom of the page. Transcript: Live discussion held 14 August 2001, 5 p.m. EST Participants: ...

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